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Word: wifely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critic for the News Chronicle raised a lone voice of dissent: '"Forgive me dear. I can't cry,' said the Salesman's wife over his grave . . . Forgive me, Paul Mum, but I can't cry either." The driest eyes of all, however, were those of the box-office clerks, busily selling tickets for ten weeks ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Grand Slam | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Equity minimum wage (lesser names get their regular price), sticks to a modest budget and limits itself to one set per production. But sometimes Hollywood will out. When Jennifer Jones starred last season in Serena Blandish, Angel Selznick insisted on surrounding his favorite actress (later to become his wife) with a cast that included Cinemactor Louis Jourdan and such polished stage veterans as Constance Collier, Mildred Natwick and Reginald Owen. He also insisted on gowns by Jacques Fath and five sets. The show drew capacity crowds throughout its run-and lost several thousand dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Stagestruck | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Margaret Elaine Damrosch, 82, wife of Conductor-Composer Walter Damrosch, daughter of onetime Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate James G. Elaine; in Bar Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Jackpot. In Melbourne, Australia, Maurice Crowe disclosed that his wife's will had left him a lottery ticket a month for life on condition that any winnings be used to pay her real-estate debts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Rationalizer. In Tucker, Ark., it took seven prison-farm waiters, instead of the usual two, to serve condemned wife-murderer Harvey Rorie the traditional last meal: fried chicken, fried catfish, mayonnaise, coconut cake, coconut pie, lemon pie, one half-gallon French fried potatoes, potato salad, one half-gallon vanilla ice cream, hot biscuits, vegetable salad, half-pound of butter, one gallon of lemonade, one half-gallon of milk, one half-gallon of strong black coffee, two packs of cigarettes, five cigars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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